Feb 17, 2015

A bomb exploded near police complex
in Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least five and wounding many others in the
blast and ensuing fire, although the bomber was not able to get inside the
building, police official Haidar Ashraf said.

According to reports the bomb was planted into car parked near
police complex on Egerton road.

Pakistani militant Taliban group
took responsibility for the attack in a phone call to the Associated Press.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, as the group calls itself. They said the attack was a response
to the current executions.

In last few months militant groups
had made many devastating attacks on different communities, esp. Shi'ite. After
16 December’s attack on Army Public school government lifted a moratorium on
the death penalty and executed many terrorists.

The explosion came from a car near
the police building, said spokeswoman Nabeela Ghazanfar, adding it was unclear
if the attack involved a suicide bomber.

She said three people were dead but
a police officer, who asked not to be named, said at least seven had died,
citing colleagues in the area. It was unclear how many of the dead were police.

The blast was followed by rapid
gunfire, said witness Ashraf Ali, who works at the press club nearby. He could
see three bodies lying in the street. Blast was so intense that cars parked near
caught fire after explosion.

Lahore is on high alert now and Punjab
Government took notice of the incident and asked for report. While Prime
Minister Muhammad Nawaz Shareef condemned the blast.